Human’s illiterate activities put the Weija Lake’s water is under threat.

The city authorities has taken steps to remove structures from water ways to prevent flooding in Accra. More structures keep springing up along the Weija Lake, putting one of the main sources of portable water for residents of Accra in danger.

The lake’s water is under threat from pollution as several people made structures along the lake on the Mallam-Kasoa road for business purpose. The businessmen including car dealers, food sellers and hawkers who are amenable for destroying the vegetation in the buffer zone between the lake and the road to develop unauthorized structures for their businesses. Millions of garbage generated through activities of the encroachers, had gathered in the buffer zone, with some, mainly plastic waste blown by the wind into the lake which was seen during a visit to the area.

So for human’s illiterate activities the lake’s water is under threat.

Investigations have found that many of the car dealers who were ejected along the Tetteh Quarshie-Apenkwa road to pave a way for that road construction had relocated to the Weija area. More than 100 hawkers were also found around the toll booth area, generating litter that are blown by the wind into the buffer zone, and further into the lake.

The authority is trying to take necessary steps to stop these activities, but it seems like they have been unable to make the issue important to them. They are not paying heeds to the warning